# Care Assistant - Nights

**Company**: Avery Healthcare Group Ltd.
**Location**: Chipstead
**Salary**: £13.15 to £14.15
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

At Avery Healthcare, you will be supporting the people who care for residents, making a positive impact on their lives every day. Your compassion and dedication will truly make a difference.

As a Care Assistant, your focus will be to deliver high standards of personal care, contributing fully to the care team to ensure continuity of services to residents.

Key responsibilities include:

- Assisting residents in all their personal hygiene care, ensuring optimum independence, dignity, and respect of individuals at all times.

- Recognising and understanding clinical risk areas in residents, such as weight loss, pressure sores, risk of falls, signs of infections, and escalating any identified risks in a timely manner.

- Acting courteously towards residents and their visitors, respecting the dignity and individuality of each resident.

- Practicing safe systems of work across the range of tasks.

To be successful in your application, you will live Avery's values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all that you do. Experience is not required as a thorough induction and training programme is provided.

The ideal candidate must:

- Have the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.

- Demonstrate initiative and be respectful towards residents and other people in the home.

- Be an efficient worker who can carry reasonable instructions from other team members.

- Be able to be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.

The role requires a DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare, and proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

The salary for this position is £13.15 to £14.15 an hour.

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## Skills

### Required
- effective communication
- initiative
- respectfulness
- adaptability

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